Printer&#39;s cabinet.



No. 793,064. PATENTED JUNE 27, 1905.

J. E. GOODRIGH, DBGD.

s. r. GooDmoH, BXBGUTRIX.

PRINTERS CABINET.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 17.1904.

UNITED STATES Patented June 97, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

SARAH F. GOODRIOH, OF GENEVA, OHIO, EXEOUTRIX OF JAMES E. GOODRICH, DEOEASED.

PRINTERS CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,064, dated June 27', 1905.

Application filed August 17, 1904. Serial No. 221,020.

To (LH 'wh/m1, it nt/ty concern/.-

Be it known that JAMES E. GrooDRieH, deceased, late a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Geneva, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, did invent new and useful VImprovements in Printers Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention embodies an improved manner of making the guides or slideways for drawers and the like, and it is particularly applicable to printers type-cases with respect to the guides or runs upon which the type-cases rest. It is well known that such type-cases weigh considerable and are in frequent use, thereby necessitatin, durable and solid runs or guides to support the cases and to stand the wear of the frequent movement thereof.

This invention meets these requirements by the use of steel runs or guides which are supported in the frame of the stand in a novel and effective manner.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view ofl the typecase stand containing the invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken through one of the end frames. Fig. 3 is an inside elevation showing some of the guideways.

The stand requires no particular description beyond the particular parts thereof forming the subject of this invention. It may be made in any suitable size and shape and designed to support any desired numberof sliding' typecases, such as are indicated at 6, such typecases being of the usual form and construction.

The runs or guides for the type-cases are supported by the end walls of the stand and also by the partition at the middle in a double stand, such as shown in Fig. l. These runs or guides consist of metal strips 7, the ends of which are mitered or cut at an angle, as indicated at 8. These strips are preferably steel, and obviously other material may be used, as desired. These strips are set in grooves in the side pieces or boards 9, which pieces are made to extend from the top to the bottom of the stand. T he strips are set with the longest edge back in the grooves and project therefrom to an extent sufficient to form supporting guides or runs for the cases. The width of the board 9 is such that the ends of the strips project slightly beyond the same, as indicated at l0, and these ends afford means whereby the strips are locked in place and prevented from falling out. This locking action is effected by a corner-piece l1 at the front and by a piece l2 at the rear. These pieces have beveled rabbets, as indicated at 13, which fit against the projecting ends 10 of' the metal strips 7. The frame or wall is completed by a rear or corner piece H and a panel l5 with top and bottom bars 1G and 17.

ln making the stand the series of metal strips are let into appropriate grooves formed in the board 9. This board is then set in a frame consisting of the corner-pieces and the panel, after which the last strip or piece l2 is put in place, and all the parts are fastened together by nails, screws, glue, or otherwise.

lt is obvious that the projecting beveled ends l0 of the strips are locked behind the corners of the rabbets of the pieces l1 and 12, and they cannotcome out or move while the frame holds together. The metal strips are held t0- gether without the use of screws or rivets, and consequently without any boring through the strips, which objectionable upon the score of labor and expense. v The strips are sheared to the required length, and no further work is required thereon except to drive them into the grooves made to receive them. If a strip should become broken or worn out, it can be removed by taking off the back piece l2 and knocking it out rearwardly.

In the construction shown the runs or guides extend horizontally. Obviously they can be inclined at an angle either lengthwise or sidewise and still be held in a similar manner. 'lhe inclination ofl the grooves determines the inclination of the strips, inasmuch as some stands are built with inclined runs for certain kinds of type. However they are built, the strips cau be cut of suflicient length to project at their ends beyond the grooved board, and so afford a place for the lock effected by the rabbeted pieces.

What is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a cabinet for sliding cases or the like, an end or side frame containing a board having grooves therein, strips fitted in the grooves and projecting to form guides for the cases, and having ends extending beyond the edge of said board, and a locking-piece secured over the said ends.

2. In a cabinet for sliding eases or the like, an end or side board having a series of grooves therein, guide-strips for the cases, fitted in the grooves and having ends projecting beyond the edges of the board, and retaining-pieces extending along the edges of the board and over the projecting ends of the strips.

3. In a cabinet for sliding cases or the like,

an end or side frame containing a board having a series of grooves across the same, metal guide-strips for the cases, tted in the grooves and having ends projecting beyond the edges of the board, and front and rear retainingpieces extending along the corresponding edges of the hoard and having rabbets into which the projecting ends of the strips extend. In testimony' whereofl I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

SARAH F. GOODRIGH, Eee/atm'a' of the tast will and testament 0f James E. Goocha'e/t, deceased. IVitnesses: JOHN A. BOMMHARDT, LOTTIE NEWBURN. 

